A month ago, Claycord.com posted the picture shown above, which was taken on Shary Circle in Concord, along with a story about how the City of Concord hired a company in Oakland to remove illegally dumped trash from city streets.

Over one month later, the illegally dumped trash on Shary Circle hasn’t been hauled away, but scavengers have taken some and picked through the rest (see below).

Why would they hire a company from the City of Jokeland to take care of this? I say get rid that company and hire another. That is disgusting. They should increase the fine to $5,000 for dumping or else complete community service picking up litter and dumped debris and furniture.

The neighborhood residents can’t each grab
a little and put in their recepticals, rather than
let it sit there and complain about it.
It’s bad enough someone dumped it, but your
block doesn’t care enough to handle it?
Wouldn’t sit that long on our block.

I called code enforcement 3 times in the last couple of months regarding my neighbors trash, weeds, vehicles parked in the front yard and garbage cans in their front yard. Code Enforcement has driven by 5 times and still nothing has changed.
My next letter is going to be to the Police Chief since he is in charge of enforcing muni codes.

Some rates form one of areas garbage transfer stations,
Minimum Charge $25.00
Refrigerators, Air Conditioning Units $44.00 Each
Washers and Stoves $44.00 Each
All Other Appliances $32.00 Each
Mattress and Box Spring – Larger Than Twin Size $28.00 Each
TVs and CRTs $32.00 Each

Top picture is what about $45 to $50 to get it legally dumped?
Bring back the Spring clean up.

Momo, yes this is light industrial, right behind Costco. My previous employer had a facility there back in the old days. Like many light industrial areas, they are pretty empty after hours, so they are magnets for all kinds of nefarious activities.

Money needed to fund neighborhood clean up, trash removal, and road repair has been “re-purposed” to pay for absurdly high police management and officer pay and benefit packages.

The police department now consumes over 60% of the total city budget, We need more police officers, but we can’t hire them because the police union has pushed costs to the sky.

The cost per year to Concord for some police officer’s pay and benefits? over $200,000. Try almost $300,000 for some lieutenants. This is public record.

Since the 2008 downturn, city management has done a good job of managing scarce dollars, but unless the City Council stands up to the police department and demands concessions, things will just get worse.

I just went and drove around Shary Circle and Shary Court and this appears to be gone. Possibly picked up yesterday. I am checking. Also checking with the garbage pick up in the area to find out why it was not picked up in the interim.

If you have garbage problems like this, don’t wait a month, contact Public Works 671-3448 or Code Enforcement 671-3282 as appropriate.

The pile is across the street from my shop on shary.
That is the same trash pile. I called the day after it was dumped and two times after that.
I topped off my dump trailer three times, trying to do what I could to improve the area I work in. It wasn’t scavengers who took the debris.
At $80.00 per ton and an hour and a half round trip to dump the debris as well as 6 miles per gallon in fuel, dumping trash at the transfer station is not cheap. I’m there at least once every week with a load and have been for 16 years.
I pick up trash on shary circle on a regular basis because if I don’t, there would always be piles of trash, couches and who knows what else lying around. Calling code enforcment is a joke. They don’t answer the phone and take two weeks to call you back. If you work like me and are not available to answer their call back two weeks later you can’t reach them when you call back. It’s a joke.
The shary circle area is a slum due to the folks that hang out after hours. The police need to patrol this area more often and keep the dirtbag tweekers away.

I’m extremely frustrated with the theft and vandalism I have had to deal with over the years.

Thank you for getting up off your ass and actually doing something to help the situation, unlike the “piss and moan” crowd. Obviously, you shouldn’t have to pick up trash for slobs, but I appreciate that you do.

I think a large part of the problem is dump fees. I know it usually costs me at least $50 to dump my pickup truck, which is insane. Yes, I realize that some people wouldn’t take their trash to the dump even if it were free, but I think quite a few more would if it were at least reasonable.

When you call code enforcement you get a message to call another number Monday thru Friday and someone will answer the phone. When you call the second number you get another answering machine. Get rid of one of your answering systems if your never going to answer the phone!

Next morning, when we got a phone call from officer Obie. He said, “Kid,
We found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of
Garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it.” And
I said, “Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope
Under that garbage.”

No option to request a Spanish or Hindi speaker, in our city we should have multillingual services if we want people to report.
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When you call code enforcement you get a message to call another number Monday thru Friday and someone will answer the phone. When you call the second number you get another answering machine. Get rid of one of your answering systems if your never going to answer the phone!